PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 71 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 10 7 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.95% 0.83% 2.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.37% 3.03% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile - £51,068 £50,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,426 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.89% +20.45%
75th Percentile £75,438 £79,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.25% -27.27% -

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 157 231 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.85% 27.37% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 112 151 349
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £71,500 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £98,474 £89,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (40.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IAM Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Employee Productivity
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam